What would a basic income cost in Namibia?
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Total cost per year
24.9 billion Namibian dollars
about 1.39 billion US dollars
3.09 million people × 670 Namibian dollars a month × 12 months
Compared with
- Government expense (central) (2023)25.5%
- Government revenue (central, excl. grants) (2024)25.9%
- Tax revenue (central government) (2024)27.2%
- GDP (nominal) (2025)9.2%
Namibia in numbers
Namibia has a population of 3.09 million (2025) and a GDP of 270 billion Namibian dollars (about 15.1 billion US dollars) in 2025.
Paying everyone 670 Namibian dollars a month would cost 24.9 billion Namibian dollars a year (about 1.39 billion US dollars), or 9.2% of GDP. That equals 25.5% of central government expense (2023), 25.9% of its revenue (2024), and 27.2% of its tax revenue (2024).
Children only (under 18: 1.31 million) would cost 10.6 billion Namibian dollars a year (3.9% of GDP); adults only (18 and over: 1.78 million), 14.3 billion Namibian dollars (5.3%).
Default amount: 670 Namibian dollars a month is the World Bank's international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), converted into Namibian dollars with the World Bank's PPP conversion factor for household consumption (2025) and rounded to two significant figures. It is a reference point, not a policy proposal; change it above.
How to read this
This is the gross cost: the total paid out. The real net cost depends on which taxes fund it, which benefits or tax breaks it replaces and whether the payment is taxed. The population, budget and GDP figures are not all from the same year (see the sources).
Sources for the figures
- Population
- World Bank: population, total (SP.POP.TOTL), and population by single year of age 0 to 17 (SP.POP.AG00.FE.IN … SP.POP.AG17.MA.IN), 2025
- SP.POP.AG00.FE.IN … SP.POP.AG17.MA.IN
- Government expense and tax revenue
- World Bank: central government expense, revenue excluding grants and tax revenue, % of GDP (GC.XPN.TOTL.GD.ZS, GC.REV.XGRT.GD.ZS, GC.TAX.TOTL.GD.ZS), 2023, 2024
- Default amount
- World Bank: international poverty line of $3.00 a day (2021 PPP), June 2025 update
- World Bank: PPP conversion factor, household final consumption (PA.NUS.PRVT.PP), 2025
- Retrieved from the World Bank API on November 9, 2026 (CC BY 4.0). Government figures are central government, as a share of GDP in their own year, applied to the latest GDP.